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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2020 19:39:00 GMT
Foreign Policy - link“White House Directed Hiring of Conspiracy Theorist Over Pentagon Objections”“The White House wants fired National Security Council aide Rich Higgins hired for a senior Defense position. The White House directed Defense Department officials to hire a former National Security Council staffer fired for circulating a conspiratorial memo and known for Islamophobic tweets, people familiar with the matter told Foreign Policy. The move is part of an aggressive push to staff the Pentagon with figures loyal to U.S. President Donald Trump and with connections to ousted former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn that has been met with resistance across the river. In late May, the White House Liaison Office instructed the Defense Department to hire Rich Higgins as a chief of staff to the undersecretary of defense for policy. Anthony Tata has been selected for the undersecretary role, but he has yet to have a Senate confirmation hearing. Facing Pentagon pushback, the White House subsequently backed off, telling Pentagon officials not to hire Higgins until Tata is confirmed as the agency’s top policy official, but to get his paperwork ready. Yet the White House reached out again about Higgins this week, a U.S. official told Foreign Policy, asking why the Pentagon had not begun the hiring process for him.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 2, 2020 20:34:34 GMT
Am I the only one not impressed with the record number of "new" jobs in June? Weren't those just jobs people had lost in March-May?? Maybe I am just not understanding this. Some were furloughed....
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 2, 2020 20:36:46 GMT
Jim Acosta.... ”Trump on resurgence of virus as cases are spiking in several states: “ We are putting out that life because it’s a bad life that we’re talking about.”What??? He and his are so busy putting Biden's gaffs out, when we all know he does stutter! ... dt's list is far longer and are sentences etc that truly make no sense!
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Post by artgirl1 on Jul 2, 2020 22:32:51 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 2, 2020 22:46:49 GMT
Gave me a chill! There is another example on another thread, no clue which one!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 2, 2020 22:49:11 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 2, 2020 23:01:23 GMT
Ousted SDNY US Attorney Geoffrey Berman has agreed to a closed door hearing with the House Judiciary Committee next week!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2020 0:48:42 GMT
George Conway...
“This isn’t really a good slogan for an incumbent. Just saying.”
trump...
”MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
He has a point.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2020 0:52:47 GMT
Ousted SDNY US Attorney Geoffrey Berman has agreed to a closed door hearing with the House Judiciary Committee next week! I shut off the news for a few hours and this happens?? Yeah!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2020 2:13:35 GMT
Tonight on Fox News, MSNBC showed a clip, with the banner “left trashes trump because of fireworks at Mt. Rushmore.
They use to have fireworks at Mt. Rushmore but stopped and per NPR the reasons were..
“A decade after being banned amid concerns about wildfires and groundwater pollution, and despite protests by Native Americans and recommendations from public health officials to avoid public gatherings, fireworks will once again be exploding over Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of western South Dakota on Friday, anticipating the Fourth of July.”
But BunkerBoy doesn’t care about things like this. Or care about doing it during a pandemic with no social distancing. Nah, all he wants is a damn photo op to use in ads for his campaign.
Plus, the American People are paying the cost for BunkerBoy to fly to South Dakota and the back to DC on the same day. So he can have another non social distancing event in DC.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 3, 2020 3:03:54 GMT
Tonight on Fox News, MSNBC showed a clip, with the banner “left trashes trump because of fireworks at Mt. Rushmore. Oglala Sioux President, Julian Bear Runner states that dt does not have permission to enter lands of the original sovereign Nation!! The tribe has a lower percentage of coronavirus cases then South Dakota, with enforced social distancing.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 3, 2020 3:53:25 GMT
Little late I would say! The Trump administration is planning to establish a division dedicated to pandemic response at the State Department after facing criticism earlier this year for shuttering the National Security Council's (NSC) pandemic unit in 2018, according to CNN. NSC officials hosted an interagency meeting Thursday to discuss plans for the new office, according to the news network. NSC officials did not immediately respond to a request for confirmation from The Hill. The meeting reportedly centered on hammering out details for the new office and working on a proposal that would require President Trump's signature for the office's approval. The dissolved pandemic response unit, originally named NSC directorate for global health and security and bio-defense, was established by former President Obama during the latter end of his 8-year term. President Trump later shuttered the office in 2018. Former Obama administration officials said that while they believed a pandemic response office was needed, it should still reside within the NSC, according to the outlet.
Former Homeland Security adviser Lisa Monaco, who served under Obama, said that the Trump administration ran the risk of secluding the office from other government agencies by placing it within the State Department rather than the NSC."This move now to set this unit, re-set this unit up, although in a different building, on the one hand is the recognition that you do indeed need a specific identified place to constantly be focusing on pandemic response," Monaco told CNN. "That is good. On the other hand, really what we are seeing here is the risk of repeating mistakes all over again." ** more at link: thehill.com/homenews/administration/505763-trump-administration-planning-pandemic-office-at-the-state-departmentMore at CNN link: www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/politics/trump-state-dept-new-pandemic-office/index.html
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 3, 2020 4:03:16 GMT
More trouble in paradise? Mitch McConnell may start advising Senate Republicans to stop touting their support for Trump: report Published 13 hours ago on July 2, 2020By Matthew Chapman According to Reuters, Republicans are more worried than ever that President Donald Trump is going to cost them control of the Senate — to the point that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) may advise vulnerable incumbents to distance themselves from the president.
“Trump’s falling poll numbers worry some fellow Republicans they will lose control of the U.S. Senate, having already lost leadership of the House of Representatives in 2018,” said the report. “The source said perhaps as soon as August, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell may have to advise Republican Senate candidates to distance themselves from Trump if needed to win election and keep their majority.” Republicans are defending a number of vulnerable Senate seats, including in Colorado, Arizona, Maine, North Carolina, Iowa, Georgia, and Montana. Some forecasters now believe Democrats are slight favorites to win a majority in November.** www.rawstory.com/2020/07/mitch-mcconnell-may-start-advising-senate-republicans-to-stop-touting-their-support-for-trump-report/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4908
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 3, 2020 12:43:58 GMT
Rmember, kids don't get the coronavirus!!
5 hr 23 min ago An 11-year-old boy has become Florida's youngest Covid-19 fatality From CNN's Denise Royal
An 11-year-old boy from Florida's Miami-Dade County is the youngest person to die from Covid-19 complications in the state, according to the Florida Department of Health.
According to the latest health records, he is the third minor in Florida to die of virus complications. The others were a 16-year-old girl in Lee County and a 17-year-old boy in Pasco County.
Records show the 11-year-old fatality is not a travel-related case, but it's unclear if the boy recently had close contact with anyone who had Covid-19.
The Florida Department of Health told CNN the boy had severe underlying health conditions.
As of last Friday, 7,000 minors in Florida had tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The state's total number of confirmed cases now stands at 169,106
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 3, 2020 12:59:01 GMT
Tough listen, but hysterical too!! You can skip to 2:53, but the beginning explains what's coming.
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Post by artgirl1 on Jul 3, 2020 14:20:14 GMT
This should terrify all of us. From Newsweek:
How Trump Could Lose the Election—And Still Remain President
1 Biden wins the popular vote, and carries the key swing states of Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania by decent but not overwhelming margins. 2. Trump immediately declares that the voting was rigged, that there was mail-in ballot fraud and that the Chinese were behind a plan to provide fraudulent mail-in ballots and other "election hacking" throughout the four key swing states that gave Biden his victory. 3. Having railed against the Chinese throughout the campaign, calling Biden "soft on China," Trump delivers his narrative claiming the Chinese have interfered in the U.S. election. 4. Trump indicates this is a major national security issue, and he invokes emergency powers, directing the Justice Department to investigate the alleged activity in the swing states. The legal justification for the presidential powers he invokes has already been developed and issued by Barr. 5. The investigation is intended to tick down the clock toward December 14, the deadline when each state's Electoral College electors must be appointed. This is the very issue that the Supreme Court harped on in Bush v. Gore in ruling that the election process had to be brought to a close, thus forbidding the further counting of Florida ballots. 6. All four swing states have Republican control of both their upper and lower houses of their state legislatures. Those state legislatures refuse to allow any Electoral College slate to be certified until the "national security" investigation is complete. 7. The Democrats will have begun a legal action to certify the results in those four states, and the appointment of the Biden slate of electors, arguing that Trump has manufactured a national security emergency in order to create the ensuing chaos. 8. The issue goes up to the Supreme Court, which unlike the 2000 election does not decide the election in favor of the Republicans. However, it indicates again that the December 14 Electoral College deadline must be met; that the president's national security powers legally authorize him to investigate potential foreign country intrusion into the national election; and if no Electoral College slate can be certified by any state by December 14, the Electoral College must meet anyway and cast its votes. 9. The Electoral College meets, and without the electors from those four states being represented, neither Biden nor Trump has sufficient votes to get an Electoral College majority. 10. The election is thrown into the House of Representatives, pursuant to the Constitution. Under the relevant constitutional process, the vote in the House is by state delegation, where each delegation casts one vote, which is determined by the majority of the representatives in that state. 11. Currently, there are 26 states that have a majority Republican House delegation. 23 states have a majority Democratic delegation. There is one state, Pennsylvania, that has an evenly split delegation. Even if the Democrats were to pick up seats in Pennsylvania and hold all their 2018 House gains, the Republicans would have a 26 to 24 delegation majority. 12. This vote would enable Trump to retain the presidency.
Full article :https://www.newsweek.com/how-trump-could-lose-election-still-remain-president-opinion-1513975
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 3, 2020 15:18:31 GMT
11. Currently, there are 26 states that have a majority Republican House delegation. 23 states have a majority Democratic delegation. There is one state, Pennsylvania, that has an evenly split delegation. Even if the Democrats were to pick up seats in Pennsylvania and hold all their 2018 House gains, the Republicans would have a 26 to 24 delegation majority. This is the result of gerrymandering! And that is done at the state level!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2020 18:41:38 GMT
A reminder of how much Republicans care about the “little guy” during a pandemic and an economy verging on slipping into a depression..
Chuck Schumer...
”Here’s what Senate Republicans BLOCKED this week:
Resources for state & local governments & tribes Funding for COVID testing & tracing Resources for elections Resources for schools & nursing homes Food assistance Protections for workers Protections for Dreamers Rental assistance”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 3, 2020 19:06:08 GMT
A reminder of how much Republicans care about the “little guy” during a pandemic and an economy verging on slipping into a depression.. Chuck Schumer... ”Here’s what Senate Republicans BLOCKED this week: Resources for state & local governments & tribes Funding for COVID testing & tracing Resources for elections Resources for schools & nursing homes Food assistance Protections for workers Protections for Dreamers Rental assistance” We should have expected more?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2020 21:34:20 GMT
Steve Herman...
”Chinese Communist Party “spawned” #COVID19 and while they were “hiding” it they sent aircraft “with hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens to effectively seed and spread” the #coronavirus all over the world, @peternavarro45 tells @whitehouse reporters.”
If this was April 1 or any other Administration I would think they were joking. But it’s not.
Or as Walter Shaub put it...
”Alert the men in the white uniforms with the butterfly nets. What level of madness is this? I tell you, my friends, this is "fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face" level madness. The White House is full of lunatics.”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 3, 2020 21:40:11 GMT
Steve Herman... ”Chinese Communist Party “spawned” #COVID19 and while they were “hiding” it they sent aircraft “with hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens to effectively seed and spread” the #coronavirus all over the world, @peternavarro45 tells @whitehouse reporters.” If this was April 1 or any other Administration I would think they were joking. But it’s not. IF true, we know who let them in and bragged about it!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2020 22:38:28 GMT
CNN..
”At least 8 Secret Service agents remain in Phoenix after coming down with coronavirus while preparing for a visit by VP Mike Pence, sources say”
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2020 23:16:06 GMT
Jim Acosta...
”Many of the seats at Trump’s speech tonight at Mount Rushmore are being ziptied together, guaranteeing no social distancing for scores of people attending the event. Discussing all of this and more on @cnnsitroom this evening. Filling in for Wolf.”
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2020 0:04:14 GMT
Billy Baldwin...
”No border wall Didn’t end Obamacare NoKo testing nukes No China trade deal Economy in shambles Historic unemployment Trillions in debt Race relations at all time low Riots in the streets Global pandemic 150,000 dead Still won’t wear a mask Bounties on US soldiers #AmericaOrTrump”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 4, 2020 0:42:26 GMT
Jim Acosta... ” Many of the seats at Trump’s speech tonight at Mount Rushmore are being ziptied together, guaranteeing no social distancing for scores of people attending the event. Discussing all of this and more on @cnnsitroom this evening. Filling in for Wolf.” Well the governor did guarantee no social distancing, so she just made sure!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2020 0:45:21 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2020 0:45:36 GMT
Jim Acosta... ” Many of the seats at Trump’s speech tonight at Mount Rushmore are being ziptied together, guaranteeing no social distancing for scores of people attending the event. Discussing all of this and more on @cnnsitroom this evening. Filling in for Wolf.” Saw this. It's supposedly because they'd fly away in case of high winds and possibly block the gates getting out. Seems like much more of a risk not to be spaced apart. Idiots!
No social distancing. No one's wearing a mask. Children are there. They're shouting, etc. already. CRAZY high risk!!!!!!!
There will be fireworks when they haven't been permitted in years there due to the dry air. Idiots!!
He's offending everyone while "subtly" giving a nod to slave-owners, once again.
Plus, he's offending the original land owners who got their land stolen.
GREAT job!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 4, 2020 2:38:10 GMT
dtJr's girlfriend Kim Guilfoyle has tested positive for coronavirus! Jr negative for now.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 4, 2020 3:05:35 GMT
He's going after the left wing facists(?) who are destroying our magnificient monuments and statues, trying to erase our history! here: President Trump on Friday during a Fourth of July event at Mount Rushmore lambasted protesters calling for the removal of Confederate statues, accusing them of wanting to “overthrow the American Revolution” and fundamentally change the country.
“There is a new far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance. If you do not speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted and punished. Not going to happen to us,” he told a packed crowd. “Make no mistake, this left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution. In so doing, they would destroy the very civilization that rescued billions from poverty, disease, violence and hunger and that lifted humanity to new heights of achievement, discovery and progress," he continued. "To make this possible, they are determined to tear down every statue, symbol and memory of our national heritage.” He later said the protestors' goal is to "end America."
Trump went on to tout an executive order he signed last month that would punish protesters who tried to topple statues. **more at link: thehill.com/homenews/administration/505840-trump-accuses-those-tearing-down-statues-of-wanting-to-overthrow-theMore examples of his telling us what HE is doing!
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Post by smginaz Suzy on Jul 4, 2020 5:24:48 GMT
Tough listen, but hysterical too!! You can skip to 2:53, but the beginning explains what's coming. Trevor Noah followed up that segment with an entire run of brackets on those words and phrases for Best Words Bracket Edition. After 3 million or so votes from the Daily Show audience, the winner was Oranges.
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